ViewsWednesday, October 01, 2014Why Stop at ISIS? Let's Bomb the Whole Middle EastLet’s bomb the Muslim world – all of it – to save the lives of its people. Surely this is the only consistent moral course? Why stop at blowing up Islamic State, when the Syrian government has murdered and tortured so many? This, after all, was last year’s moral imperative. What’s changed? How...Read more

ViewsWednesday, May 28, 2014The Impossibility of Growth Demands a New Economic SystemLet us imagine that in 3030BC the total possessions of the people of Egypt filled one cubic metre. Let us propose that these possessions grew by 4.5% a year. How big would that stash have been by the Battle of Actium in 30BC? This is the calculation performed by the investment banker Jeremy Grantham(1).Read more

ViewsTuesday, June 04, 2013Is the Lawlessness of Obama's Drone Policy Coming Home?Did the FBI execute Ibragim Todashev ? He appears to have been shot seven times while being interviewed at home in Orlando, Florida, about his connection to one of the Boston bombing suspects. Among the shots was the assassin's hallmark: a bullet to the back of the head.Read more

ViewsThursday, March 14, 2013Japan's 'Frozen Gas' Is Worthless If We Take Climate Change SeriouslyThere's only one way of knowing whether or not governments are serious about climate change : have they decided to leave most of their fossil fuel reserves in the ground? We have already discovered far more carbon than we can afford to burn, if we are not to commit the world to very dangerous levels of heating.Read more

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